Word: healed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choice of plays. They should have realized they were up against a team which was bottling up their spinners by closing in. They should have taken to the air early and often. But anyone can criticize the choice of plays of a losing club; this, like Geneva, does not heal the wound...
...horse's bones are not extraordinarily brittle, but a horse's weight and its momentum often produce breaks that are too much for veterinary skill or owner's purse. But veterinary surgeons can heal many a horse's broken leg. One method: Cincinnati dentist, Dr. Peter Wehner, uses a cast made of dental stone, says he can mend even a compound fracture. Though Dr. Wehner has successfully treated four race horces, none of his patients has raced again...
...cobra and other venoms, although serving to alter transmission of impulses from and to the diseased muscles or painful areas and that way accomplishing the desired recovery of the part affected, has no paralyzing effect whatsoever either upon the nerves, muscles or parts. The treatment as applied serves to heal the diseased nerves and the patient is confined to the hospital bed only for a few hours...
...nervous circulation of pain. This it does by paralyzing efferent motor nerves (which carry commands from the brain) just where they branch from the spinal cord. For lack of orders from the brain to do something, the injured part relaxes, does nothing. This gives injured local nerves opportunity to heal and to help the injured muscles which they serve, to heal also. Dr. Greene finds his anodyne an aid in the treatment of back injuries, sciatica and shaking palsy. In cases of inoperable cancer the patient has opportunity to die in peace...
...pump as patients are placed in a hospital. Then they could be treated far more energetically than within the organism, and if cured replanted in the patient. A thyroid extirpated in the course of an operation ... a kidney removed for tuberculosis, or a leg amputated for osteosarcoma, would perhaps heal under the influence of an artificial medium when living in vitro. The replantation would offer no difficulty, as surgical techniques for the suture of blood vessels and the transplantation of organs and limbs were developed long ago." In effect, Dr. Carrel, with the Lindbergh pump, is looking for the fountain...